Topic: E-Biz Empire Strikes Back: Part II
Best Practices for High Volume Web Sites

Abstract:

IBM’s High Volume Web Sites team works closely with customers who have the world's largest web sites. They analyze their customers’ sites and define practices that result in high-performing, scalable sites, reduce consumption of IT resources, simplify IT operations, and, ultimately, yield repeat customers and improvements to the bottom line. In her presentation, Legregni will focus on: 1) Identifying a site’s workload pattern. IBM is developing models that will enable customers to simulate their traffic patterns and determine the infrastructure needed to satisfy their performance objectives. 2) Understanding the scalability of a site’s infrastructure components and applying scaling techniques. This information can improve a site’s availability, performance, and ability to respond to significant workload shifts. 3) Designing web pages for performance. Easy practices can reduce download times.

Legregni will share a glimpse of web sites that IBM has been involved with, and talk about methodologies and tools to enable customers to implement design, scaling, and analysis techniques to improve their site’s availability, capacity, and performance.

Who Should Attend:

• E-commerce strategists and practitioners
• General management
• Sales and marketing management
• Customer support management
• Operations management
• Business owners
• IT managers and staff personnel
• Web site users, owners, and support personnel